tools for listening to online conversations
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Working Differently:ListeningBob Bertsch
NDSU Agriculture Communication
Online Communication Objectives
1. To be a catalyst for learning networks that engage people as learners and teachers
2. To give people control of their own lifelong educational opportunities through anywhere, anytime learning
3. To listen to and learn from the people we serve
4. To reach learners who we have not traditionally reached
A Path Forward
Created by Aliza Sherman
A Path Forward
Listen
Time investment: 15 min./day
Tools: Google Alerts, SocialMention, Twitter
Objective: To listen to and learn from the people we serve
Google Alerts
Google Alerts are e-mail updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
• monitoring a developing news story
• keeping current on your topic area
• looking for mentions of your organization or office
Google Alerts
• go to www.google.com/alerts• enter a term• choose the type of results you want
• news• blogs• realtime• videos• discussions
• choose how often to receive alerts• choose selected results or all results• enter your e-mail address
• create or login with Google account to manage your alerts
Socialmention
Social media search and analysis
• search all or selected social media
• create e-mail alerts
• tap into the conversation
Socialmention
• Go to www.socialmention.com• enter a term• select all or some social media sources• click search
• create an e-mail alert• search term• social media sources• language• frequency• e-mail address
Search for Conversations on Twitter
• Go to search.twitter.com
• Type a topic in the search bar
• Use the “Tweets” tab for people who have tweeted the term
Search for Conversations on TwitterCheck for better search results by using a hashtag.
• Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context to tweets.
• You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
• Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.